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Roll Your Own Yahoo! News RSS Feeds

Posted by timothy on from the smooshing-things-together dept.

An anonymous reader submits "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting that one of Yahoo's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own Yahoo! News rss feed. Jeremy Zawodney, said hacker, is also an editor of Linux Magazine. News search over RSS is a feature Googlites have been pining for. It's interesting that Yahoo has, in a round about way, beat them to the punch on this one."

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  1. Interesting by floydigus · · Score: 2, Funny

    one of Yahoo's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own Yahoo! News rss feed.

    In other news, one of Slashdot's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own misconstructed sentences.

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  2. Not worth effort by Apreche · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With the relatively widespread use of RSS I'm really surprised that we are constantly forced to "roll our own" feeds. I mean, all I want is the front page of google news. Is it really that hard that all these news sites and such can't set up RSS for us? Freakin' Penny Arcade has RSS.

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  3. Link to the article by utahjazz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for the links to Google and Yahoo.. How about a Link to the article?

  4. Re:Buggy by phlyingpenguin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Though I just did it again and it's working right with "sco linux" - and several of his examples are multiword. Still, it isn't very reliable, I get quite a few 404s (as the comments in his blog suggest)

  5. Google News RSS by Webmonger · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not offical, but it's been there for ages:

    http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php

  6. Memigo does this and more by costas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    [Plug] My newsbot does News Search alerts plus context alerts (news articles it thinks you may like based on your past read/rated articles) and they are all available via customized RSS and PDA feeds.